Ocean Box and Mould Magic

Ocean theme Altered Box

          Hi friends sharing a vintage Ocean themed Altered Box in which I have incorporated dozens of crafty techniques and products. Its a long post so just scroll down flipping through the photos and pause to read about any part you find interesting! Would love to have your comments though!

Shell Craft

       I used a gorgeous paper from DCWV Ciao Bella stack that had a beautiful image of a vintage ship sailing and used it to line my box.  Used the dry brush technique to put shiny acrylic gold paint splats all over the paper.

       Altered a silver compass charm with acrylic gold paint[ local brand] to match my vintage nautical theme

        All the shells on this box were collected from family holidays at the beach over the years! [I love shells and get hopelessly excited like a child on spotting a shell on the beach!]

        The water droplets you see all over my box are actually made of resin...and no I didnt purposely go ahead and make them but they are a result of resin spills during my resin experiments...they do look charming dont they?

Golden Embossed Sun

          What is the sea with out the sun?!! I altered a chipboard sun with gold embossing powder and gave a partial dabbing with acrylic gold paint and a few drops of golden liquid pearls.

Shell Craft

        The other corner of the box lid has a net [ recycled vegetable packaging!], more favorites from my shell collection , a shell shaped bead [from my daughter's bead jewelry making set] and a golden anchor.

Resin Crafts

        On the front of the box is the beautiful and apt sentiment " Dream Big" from the same paper collection. I think the oceans are so dreamy and inspiring and must have inspired many souls over the ages!

Resin Crafts

         I made this beautiful oval resin embellishment in clear resin and placed a turquoise oval surrounded by golden paper behind it to give it a multicolored hue! Wrapped a golden chain of rhinestone crystals around it to make it shimmer even more!

Resin Crafts

         The shiny silver waves are cut from glitter foam using a Cheery Lynn  die and I added chunky blue glitter along the edge of the lid.

Foam Craft

The big pearly white "seaweed" was made using this mold and white glue sticks!

Glue Gun Craft

You can read how I did it here : Porcelain tutorial

Glue Gun Crafts

         And yes hung a little lamp to shed light during stormy dark nights !

Resin Crafts

          And my favorite Resin Dolphin which you saw in my Ocean Photo frame too!

Resin Crafts

         I made all the Resin embellishments in this project using local Resin [seen in the 2 big cans in the photo above] and silicon moulds [meant for chocolates!]. I have been experimenting with resin for some time now and its so addictive to make all the fun resin embellishments right at home. Will share a tips and tutorial post soon!

Clay and Resin

        This is the side of the box and stars a clay star fish I had made earlier and salvaged from our fish tank decoration project .

Metal Lamp Charm

          The shimmering green leaves were cut from textured foam [ amazing what treasures you can get on a trip to the local market !] using Cheery Lynn  olive branch  and I hung the magic lamp from a piece of pearl mat! I somehow always associate the sea with a bit of magic!

Resin and Foam Craft

          The sea weed is  heat embossed chipboard and Cheery Lynn  foam die cuts. All the glistening water droplets are resin drops!

Resin Crafts

         And that is the other side of the with a big Resin sea horse surrounded by resin sea weeds on a textured background !

Resin Crafts

         The beautiful glistening little beads you see were created using glass beads gel. You can read more about it here : Texture Media Experiments

Resin crafts

        When I made the Resin sea horse and seaweeds seen here I added a bit of glitter  before the resin set in the mould ! I added pearly blue acrylic paint on parts of the base of the seahorse so that the sea horse looks blue - green and shimmers when you look at it from different directions!

Ocean Themed Box

I hope you like my altered Ocean themed Box.

Supplies:
Dies : Cheery Lynn  waves from At the beach, Cheery Lynn  Olive Branch
Paper : DCWV Ciao Bella
Misc :WOW Gold Embossing Powder ,Acrylic Gold Paint
White Glue Sticks : Itsy Bitsy [ address and links here : Craft Supply Stores India]
Liquid Pearls Gold, Liquitex Glass Beads Gel : Crafters Corner
Resin : Devi and Co , Bangalore[ address here : Craft Supply Stores India]
Edited This project was featured at Pixie's Playground and was lucky winner at Unstampabelles Sun theme